ARTNET NEWS

As expected, the Dia Art Foundation has announced that an agreement is in the works with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands over the lease for the 10 acres of state-owned land that’s home to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, 1970, in the Great Salt Lake.

A story about R. Crumb in Australia’s The Sunday Telegraph newspaper aggravated the cartoonist so much that he cancelled his appearance at the annual Graphic festival in Sydney, Aug. 20-21, 2011, which would have been his first visit to the country.